Named Entity Results, Horace James

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Respectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. Kutz, Chief Engineer. Commander J. H. strong, Commanding U. S. S. Monongahela.
U. S. S. Monongahela, Mobile Bay, Aug. 10, 1864.
sir: The following persons, wounded in the action of the fifth instant, were sent to the Naval Hospital at Pensacola.
Lieutenant R. Prentiss, both legs, left one amputated.
Michael Smith, boy, scalp.
Wm. Feeney, private marine, contusions.
I am, respectfully, David Kindleberger, Surgeon U. S. Navy. Commander James A. strong, Commanding U. S. S. Monongahela.
Report of Commander Wm. E. Le Roy.
U. S. Steam-sloop Ossipee.
Admiral: I have the honor to report that in passing the forts, and in the attack upon the iron-clad Tennessee, this ship was struck four times in the hull and several times in the rigging, fortunately without disabling the ship.
Our stem is somewhat injured by running against the Tennessee.
Our casualties I am pleased to report as small.
When about running down the Te

and all other Superintendents of Negro Affairs shall report to Lieutenant-Colonel Kinsman, who is acting for the Commanding General in this behalf
All the territory of Virginia south of the James River shall be under the superintendence of Captain Orlando Brown, Assistant Quartermaster.
All the territory north of James River shall be under the superintendence of Captain Charles B. Wilder, Assistant Quartermaster.
The District of North-Carolina shall be under the superintendence of Rev. Horace James, Chaplain.
Each Superintendent shall have the power to select and appoint such Assistant Superintendents for such sub-districts in his district as may be necessary, to be approved by the Commanding General; such appointments to be confirmed by the Commanding General.
The pay of such assistant, if a civilian, shall in no case exceed the pay of a first-class clerk in the quartermaster's department.
It shall be the duty of each Superintendent, under the direction of the General S

neral to protect them in the removal of their families.
Seldom did such a request fail to insure the necessary detail of men. The lately deserted streets of the city were thronged with liberated slaves that came pouring in from the country in every direction with their household furniture.
As rapidly as possible the women and children, and such men as were physically unfit to serve as soldiers, were shipped to Roanoke Island, where a large negro colony has been founded under the care of Horace James.
Although the suppression of the guerrillas was considered by General Wild subordinate to the great object of his raid, which was to clear the country of slaves and procure recruits for his brigade, still as those highwaymen, calling themselves the Sixty-sixth North-Carolina volunteers, and the State defenders, were constantly lurking in the neighborhood and nightly firing on our pickets, and as they had not returned the colored soldier they had taken, a gorilla hunt was determined upo

agined himself far beyond our reach, and really when he occupied a country never before trodden by the foot of a white man.
Much of the credit is due to the perseverance and courage of Colonel Kit Carson, commanding the expedition, whose example excited all to great energy and inspired great resolution; but it may not be out of place to remark that it is now demonstrated beyond a doubt that, while the troops of New-Mexico have long borne the reputation of being the best cavalry, they have proved themselves on the present campaign to be the best infantry in the world.
General James II.
Carlton, who knows, perhaps, and understands the material for an army as well as any general in our army, has directed the formation of a New-Mexican brigade; and when the savage foe is removed, that brigade, commanded by Brigadier-General Kit Carson, would surely reflect credit on the Territory and on the Department Commander, who, in every sense, deserves the stars of a Major-General. J. M. C.